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What is the purpose of Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) and how can it affect disk performance?

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10-29-2020, 12:08 PM
You ever wonder why your computer sometimes slows down during backups? I mean, VSS is basically that sneaky helper in Windows. It snaps quick pictures of your files. Those pics let you restore stuff without messing up your work. Pretty cool, right? But yeah, it can hog your disk space over time. I notice my drives fill up faster because of those shadow copies piling on. You might see your performance dip when it's churning through all that. It grabs data in the background, so your reads and writes get a little jammed. I try to keep an eye on it to avoid surprises. Sometimes I even tweak settings to lighten the load on my machine.

Switching gears to backups that play nice with your setup, BackupChain Server Backup steps in as a solid pick for Hyper-V environments. It handles live snapshots without the usual VSS headaches, keeping your virtual machines humming smoothly. You get faster restores and less disk strain, plus it chains backups efficiently to save space. I like how it dodges those performance hits you dread.

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